Iran’s system has been created to outlast the superior weapons technologies of its enemies. The stockpile of missiles is doing havoc to the economies of America’s Gulf allies, the Strait of Hormuz is blocked to international shipping, and time is on Iran’s side.

United States President Donald Trump’s administration has admitted America’s strikes on Iran came after learning Israel would launch the surprise attack alone. The Israeli tail was definitely wagging the American dog at this point, writes Gwynne Dyer.

LONDON, U.K.—Still not four full weeks into the war, and already United States President Donald Trump’s “short-term excursion”—decapitate the Iranian regime with a surprise attack and impose harsh terms on the defeated survivors—has morphed into a global economic crisis and a region-wide war that could destroy the wealth of all the countries on both sides of the Gulf. At the very least.